The public is urged to consider carefully claims that euthanasia can be safe, the Australian Christian Lobby warns.

ACL Managing Director Lyle Shelton said the move by NSW politicians to introduce a bill along with the push in Victoria and Tasmania meant that all Australians needed to investigate the truth claims of euthanasia advocates.

“If euthanasia policy cannot be grounded in truth, what other lies will be told to justify life or death decisions if this becomes legal?”

Mr Shelton said the “safeguards” built in to the Northern Territory’s short-lived euthanasia law, under which four people were killed in the 1990s, were breached by leading euthanasia activist Dr Philip Nitschke.